'You're lucky I haven't chucked you off my balcony you goddamned psycho bitch'

A New Zealand tourist was so afraid of an Australian man she met on Tinder that she fell 14 floors to her death while trying to climb off his balcony, a court has heard.

Gable Tostee, 30, pleaded not guilty in the Queensland state Supreme Court in Brisbane to the murder of 26-year-old Warriena Wright in Gold Coast city in the early hours of 8 August, 2014.

He faces a potential life sentence if convicted, the Associated Press reports.

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A general view of the Avalon apartment building where Warriena Wright fell to her death

Tostee and Wright met for the first time in the tourist center of Surfers Paradise on the night she died.

Prosecutor Glen Cash told the jury that Tostee did not throw Wright to her death, but intimidated and threatened her to an extent that she felt the only way to escape was to climb down from his balcony.

The court heard an audio recording made on Tostee’s phone that captured an altercation between the pair, as well as the fall.

Cash alleged that Tostee became angry after Wright threw ornamental rocks at him and hit him with a telescope.

He also said that Tostee choked and restrained her before locking her out of his apartment on the balcony.

“You’re lucky I haven’t chucked you off my balcony you goddamned psycho bitch,” Tostee is heard saying in the recording. “If you try to pull anything, I’ll knock you out, I’ll knock you the fuck out, do you understand?”